#fat

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#ago #all day #born #changed #cried

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #fat #favorite #her

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#constitution #entire #fathers #founding #founding fathers

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought! ↗

— Cesar Romero

#bolts #broke #business #exporting #father

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#men #minds #only #own #prisoners

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#delano #down #folks #franklin #grandfather

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. ↗

— Pete Rose

#anything #father #good #make #me

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. ↗

— Tim Roth

#believe #bored #brother #could #father

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#account #fat #fat man #him #hippopotamus